readerwriterqueue VS BlockingCollection

Compare readerwriterqueue vs BlockingCollection and see what are their differences.

readerwriterqueue

A fast single-producer, single-consumer lock-free queue for C++ (by cameron314)

BlockingCollection

C++11 thread safe, multi-producer, multi-consumer blocking queue, stack & priority queue class (by CodeExMachina)
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readerwriterqueue BlockingCollection
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readerwriterqueue

Posts with mentions or reviews of readerwriterqueue. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-18.
  • MPMC suggestions where messages are sent to all consumers ?
    4 projects | /r/cpp | 18 Mar 2023
    I have looked at the commonly recommended - https://github.com/cameron314/readerwriterqueue - https://github.com/rigtorp/MPMCQueue
  • How to figure out the cause of my pi 4 crashing?
    3 projects | /r/raspberry_pi | 15 Aug 2022
    The PREEMPT error looks like its a C module but I cannot tell from he little snippet of the log - you may do better to move the *arr and Synchthing into Docker containers to keep the OS cleaner.
  • Qt 6.3 Released
    10 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Apr 2022
    For audio DSP in a Qt app I have good success with using a lock-free queue (e.g. https://github.com/cameron314/readerwriterqueue) to communicate from / to the UI threads. Code more-or-less looks like

        connect(model, &ModelObject::somethingChanged, [=] {
  • ConorWilliams/ConcurrentDeque
    3 projects | /r/cpp | 11 Mar 2021
    We recently removed readerwriterqueue from our project due to issues and replaced with simple locking queue (and got better performance in the result). Your code looks interesting, but we can't use it due to C++17 usage.

BlockingCollection

Posts with mentions or reviews of BlockingCollection. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-11.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing readerwriterqueue and BlockingCollection you can also consider the following projects:

moodycamel - A fast multi-producer, multi-consumer lock-free concurrent queue for C++11

CUB - THIS REPOSITORY HAS MOVED TO github.com/nvidia/cub, WHICH IS AUTOMATICALLY MIRRORED HERE.

Taskflow - A General-purpose Parallel and Heterogeneous Task Programming System

MPMCQueue.h - A bounded multi-producer multi-consumer concurrent queue written in C++11

eXtended Template Library - eXtended Template Library

HPX - The C++ Standard Library for Parallelism and Concurrency

libmill - Go-style concurrency in C

Thrust - [ARCHIVED] The C++ parallel algorithms library. See https://github.com/NVIDIA/cccl

cupla - The project alpaka has moved to https://github.com/alpaka-group/cupla

C++ Actor Framework - An Open Source Implementation of the Actor Model in C++

ArrayFire - ArrayFire: a general purpose GPU library.